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Everyone is reading the Supreme Court's Roundup decision as a fight about glyphosate. Much of MAHA called it a betrayal.
The more I studied the opinion, the more I concluded it is not really about glyphosate at all. 🧵
The more I studied the opinion, the more I concluded it is not really about glyphosate at all. 🧵
The justices did not weigh epidemiology. They did not rule on whether glyphosate causes cancer. They did not pick IARC or EPA as the better science.
They answered a narrow legal question with enormous consequences.
They answered a narrow legal question with enormous consequences.
The question: when EPA approves a pesticide label under FIFRA, can a state jury later decide the manufacturer should have warned more strongly?
The Court's answer was largely no. EPA-approved labels now preempt most state failure-to-warn claims.
The Court's answer was largely no. EPA-approved labels now preempt most state failure-to-warn claims.
Ancestral 'frozen' SARS2 genomes generated from UNC Hospital patients in 2020/21 indicate potential lab acquired infections
3 genomes have non-natural mutation R685G, a strong signature of engineering
The UNC response to the alert has been one of suppression 🧵
3 genomes have non-natural mutation R685G, a strong signature of engineering
The UNC response to the alert has been one of suppression 🧵
@pricklyresearch @UNC @Baric_Lab @alisonannyoung @BiosafetyNow 1/ @quay_dr and myself have released an updated preprint that explores 9 anomalous GISAID sequences generated by the Dr Dirk Dittmer's UNC Medical School's Vironomics Core from samples collected from patients from UNC Hospital May 2020 - Jan 2021
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…
2/ UNC is the premier coronavirus research institution in the world, with links to the WIV, and a controversial involvement in Gain of Function research into bat coronaviruses
Its BSL3 facility has had a number of biosafety breaches over the years
propublica.org/article/here-a…
Its BSL3 facility has had a number of biosafety breaches over the years
propublica.org/article/here-a…
🧵Are you tired of winning yet?
Trump just scored huge victories: the biggest trade deal in history with the EU, a Lebanon-Israel peace deal, and more.
The world is being reordered in America’s favor — and it’s only getting better.
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Trump just scored huge victories: the biggest trade deal in history with the EU, a Lebanon-Israel peace deal, and more.
The world is being reordered in America’s favor — and it’s only getting better.
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2/ Just 11 months ago, Trump signed the largest trade deal ever with the EU.
This week, the EU ratified it. For the first time in history Europe charges us ZERO. And we charge them 15%!
Europe buying $600 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investment and $750 billion in American energy over three years.
The establishment on both sides of the Atlantic said it would never happen, that the whole world would isolate and gang up on America.
Kind of like they told you Hillary would win by 12 points.
This week, the EU ratified it. For the first time in history Europe charges us ZERO. And we charge them 15%!
Europe buying $600 billion in new U.S. manufacturing investment and $750 billion in American energy over three years.
The establishment on both sides of the Atlantic said it would never happen, that the whole world would isolate and gang up on America.
Kind of like they told you Hillary would win by 12 points.
3/ At the same time, Marco Rubio negotiated peace between Israel and Lebanon.
Iran gets booted out. Hezbollah gets removed. Lebanon takes full control of its territory for the first time in 51 years.
Mutual recognition of sovereignty. Which is a bigger deal than it sounds, because Lebanon declared war on Israel in 1948 and has legally been at war against them ever since!
This could mean full diplomatic relations and Lebanon joining the Abraham Accords.
Iran gets booted out. Hezbollah gets removed. Lebanon takes full control of its territory for the first time in 51 years.
Mutual recognition of sovereignty. Which is a bigger deal than it sounds, because Lebanon declared war on Israel in 1948 and has legally been at war against them ever since!
This could mean full diplomatic relations and Lebanon joining the Abraham Accords.
Metal exists on a continuum between death & black — the former axis represents the material, the guttural, the biological, the putrid even— the latter axis represents the immaterial, the ideal, the specter, wraith, all that is ghostly. It is the continuum of growl & hiss.
The closer to whispering & singing falsetto is black metal, the closer to grunting, pig squeals, burping; is death metal. Black metal is very “soft” music actually, & death metal is more “hard.” They are easier to distinguish by vocal style than anything else.
Death metal is about dirt biking in the mud & slamming beers, blood sweat ooze filth vomit etc. Black metal is about drinking vodka on ice alone in a tower as the moonlight twinkles on a frozen sea. I understand why people think death metal “sounds like diarrhea.”
1/ The continued success of Ukraine's FP-5 'Flamingo' cruise missile in hitting targets deep inside Russia is causing frustration and anger among Russian warbloggers. They criticise Russian air defences, but concede clever Ukrainian tactics. ⬇️
2/ The fact that Volgograd – the former Stalingrad – was hit is seen as particularly symbolic and insulting to Russia. Vladimir Romanov complains that Russia's leadership is shying away from ordering Ukraine's leaders to be killed and Kyiv nuked to deter such attacks:
3/ "Looking at the footage of today's leisurely flight of FP-5 "Flamingo" missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Volgograd - I ask myself: if our air defence has degraded to such an extent - what will happen if NATO countries decide to launch a massive strike?
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Independent Technical Review Raises Serious Privacy Questions About Abbott Campaign App!
The Abbott Impact App
A THREAD 👇
At the 2026 Texas Republican Convention, many delegates were encouraged to download the Abbott Impact app as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s grassroots campaign efforts. Many also gave the app permission to access the contacts stored on their phones.
The promotion did not end when the convention concluded. As delegates returned home, they received one final text message from the Abbott campaign encouraging them to download the Abbott Impact app. The message described the application as a “free tool” that would allow Republican activists to help turn out voters through phone calls, text messages, and door knocking, and included a direct download link to the app. A screenshot of that text message is included with this report.
At the time, most users likely believed they were simply helping the campaign identify registered voters among their friends and family.
Now, an independently verified technical review is raising questions about what information the app actually collects, where that information goes, and whether users were given a COMPLETE explanation before agreeing to share it.
According to the analysis, the app can access far more than just names and phone numbers. It is capable of reading email addresses, mailing addresses, employer information, notes saved with contacts, photographs, messaging accounts, and other information stored in a user’s address book.
One of the report’s biggest concerns involves the information presented to users before they agree to share their contacts.
The app tells users:
“Your personal information and contact details remain private. No one outside of the campaign will be able to see your answers or notes.”
However, according to the independently verified technical review, the contact information uploaded through the app is transmitted to computer servers operated by a third-party company called Right Impact LLC. The report concludes that users were NOT clearly informed that a third-party company would receive and process that information when they were asked for permission to upload their contacts.
The report also found that the app collects additional information used for analytics and advertising that is not explained to users during the consent process. It further raises questions about whether the app’s disclosures are consistent with the requirements of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) - the VERY PRIVACY LAW signed by Governor Abbott that took effect on July 1, 2024.
Read on 👇
The Abbott Impact App
A THREAD 👇
At the 2026 Texas Republican Convention, many delegates were encouraged to download the Abbott Impact app as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s grassroots campaign efforts. Many also gave the app permission to access the contacts stored on their phones.
The promotion did not end when the convention concluded. As delegates returned home, they received one final text message from the Abbott campaign encouraging them to download the Abbott Impact app. The message described the application as a “free tool” that would allow Republican activists to help turn out voters through phone calls, text messages, and door knocking, and included a direct download link to the app. A screenshot of that text message is included with this report.
At the time, most users likely believed they were simply helping the campaign identify registered voters among their friends and family.
Now, an independently verified technical review is raising questions about what information the app actually collects, where that information goes, and whether users were given a COMPLETE explanation before agreeing to share it.
According to the analysis, the app can access far more than just names and phone numbers. It is capable of reading email addresses, mailing addresses, employer information, notes saved with contacts, photographs, messaging accounts, and other information stored in a user’s address book.
One of the report’s biggest concerns involves the information presented to users before they agree to share their contacts.
The app tells users:
“Your personal information and contact details remain private. No one outside of the campaign will be able to see your answers or notes.”
However, according to the independently verified technical review, the contact information uploaded through the app is transmitted to computer servers operated by a third-party company called Right Impact LLC. The report concludes that users were NOT clearly informed that a third-party company would receive and process that information when they were asked for permission to upload their contacts.
The report also found that the app collects additional information used for analytics and advertising that is not explained to users during the consent process. It further raises questions about whether the app’s disclosures are consistent with the requirements of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) - the VERY PRIVACY LAW signed by Governor Abbott that took effect on July 1, 2024.
Read on 👇
According to the technical analysis, the Abbott Impact app failed 9 OUT OF 10 TDPSA compliance markers, with the remaining category classified as indeterminate. In other words, the reviewers found that none of the ten evaluated compliance requirements were clearly met. Among the concerns identified were the absence of a compliant consent mechanism for sensitive geolocation data, missing disclosures regarding third-party data processing, no identified implementation of the Global Privacy Control standard required under Texas law, and limited mechanisms for users to exercise their privacy rights. These findings reflect the conclusions of the technical review and are not, by themselves, a legal determination that any law has been violated.
The report is equally clear about what it does not claim. It does not allege that anyone’s data has been sold, leaked, or improperly shared beyond the identified third-party processor. Instead, it concludes that the app’s documented behavior differs from what users are told when they decide whether to share information from their phones.
The application underwent an independent technical review of the decompiled Android application, including analysis of the source code, application manifest, embedded resources, and application architecture. The report also references an accompanying independent audit, providing an additional layer of technical verification supporting the findings regarding how the application collects, processes, and discloses user information.
These findings come at a time when many Texas Republicans are already asking questions about how party data is handled. According to public statements from Chairman Josh McKaughan’s team, former RPT Chairman Abraham George exported the Republican Party of Texas Mailchimp database shortly after losing his reelection bid. While there is no evidence connecting that incident to the Abbott Impact app, both situations have prompted renewed concern about who has access to grassroots data, how it is stored, and what protections are in place for supporters who entrust political organizations with their personal information.
I AM CURRENTLY looking into and investigating the allegations made against Abraham George.
For delegates who downloaded the app at the Texas Republican Convention, you might want to reconsider. Many were encouraged to install the application in good faith, trusting that they understood how their information would be used.
The findings have already undergone independent technical verification and an additional independent audit. The remaining questions are not about whether the application performs these functions, but whether users were given complete and accurate information before deciding to share data from their phones.
Among the questions that deserve answers:
Were users clearly informed that a third-party company would receive and process their contact information?
Why does the consent screen state that no one outside the campaign will see users’ information? This is blatantly false.
If the application failed 9 out of 10 TDPSA compliance benchmarks, what steps, if any, have been taken to address those findings?
What information is retained after contacts are uploaded?
How long is that information stored?
What safeguards are in place to protect the personal information entrusted to the app?
Those are questions both the Abbott campaign and Right Impact LLC should have the opportunity to answer.
The report is equally clear about what it does not claim. It does not allege that anyone’s data has been sold, leaked, or improperly shared beyond the identified third-party processor. Instead, it concludes that the app’s documented behavior differs from what users are told when they decide whether to share information from their phones.
The application underwent an independent technical review of the decompiled Android application, including analysis of the source code, application manifest, embedded resources, and application architecture. The report also references an accompanying independent audit, providing an additional layer of technical verification supporting the findings regarding how the application collects, processes, and discloses user information.
These findings come at a time when many Texas Republicans are already asking questions about how party data is handled. According to public statements from Chairman Josh McKaughan’s team, former RPT Chairman Abraham George exported the Republican Party of Texas Mailchimp database shortly after losing his reelection bid. While there is no evidence connecting that incident to the Abbott Impact app, both situations have prompted renewed concern about who has access to grassroots data, how it is stored, and what protections are in place for supporters who entrust political organizations with their personal information.
I AM CURRENTLY looking into and investigating the allegations made against Abraham George.
For delegates who downloaded the app at the Texas Republican Convention, you might want to reconsider. Many were encouraged to install the application in good faith, trusting that they understood how their information would be used.
The findings have already undergone independent technical verification and an additional independent audit. The remaining questions are not about whether the application performs these functions, but whether users were given complete and accurate information before deciding to share data from their phones.
Among the questions that deserve answers:
Were users clearly informed that a third-party company would receive and process their contact information?
Why does the consent screen state that no one outside the campaign will see users’ information? This is blatantly false.
If the application failed 9 out of 10 TDPSA compliance benchmarks, what steps, if any, have been taken to address those findings?
What information is retained after contacts are uploaded?
How long is that information stored?
What safeguards are in place to protect the personal information entrusted to the app?
Those are questions both the Abbott campaign and Right Impact LLC should have the opportunity to answer.
Report part 2
General Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
Since January 1, Ukrainian forces have killed or seriously wounded 183,500 Russian troops, exceeding the 180,500 personnel Russia is believed to have recruited over the same period. 1/10
Since January 1, Ukrainian forces have killed or seriously wounded 183,500 Russian troops, exceeding the 180,500 personnel Russia is believed to have recruited over the same period. 1/10
Our main objective is to ensure that the enemy loses more than 1,000 personnel killed or wounded every day, losses so great that they exceed the enemy’s ability to replenish its forces. 2/10
In May, for the first time since 2023, Ukrainian troops gained incrementally more territory than was lost, reversing a three-year trend of creeping Russian gains. 3/10
Jai Singh arrested Shivaji and handed him over to Aurangzeb. This is historically incorrect.
After the Treaty of Purandar (1665), Shivaji Maharaj entered into an agreement with Mirza Raja Jai Singh I
"Jai Singh took the most solemn oaths possible for a Hindu that Shivaji would not be harmed during his visit..."
Mirza Raja Jai Singh persuaded Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to visit Aurangzeb's court at Agra by personally guaranteeing his safety. Once Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj reached Agra in 1666, Aurangzeb himself ordered his detention after the imperial audience. No contemporary source states that Jai Singh arrested Shivaji or conspired in his imprisonment.
After the Treaty of Purandar (1665), Shivaji Maharaj entered into an agreement with Mirza Raja Jai Singh I
"Jai Singh took the most solemn oaths possible for a Hindu that Shivaji would not be harmed during his visit..."
Mirza Raja Jai Singh persuaded Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to visit Aurangzeb's court at Agra by personally guaranteeing his safety. Once Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj reached Agra in 1666, Aurangzeb himself ordered his detention after the imperial audience. No contemporary source states that Jai Singh arrested Shivaji or conspired in his imprisonment.
Aurangzeb insulted him in court and placed him under house arrest.
No contemporary Persian, Rajput or Marathi source states that Mirza Raja Jai Singh arrested Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or conspired in his imprisonment.
The Varaha Temple at Pushkar was desecrated during Aurangzeb's reign. This is true, however neither Persian chronicles nor contemporary Rajput records describe Mirza Raja Jai Singh physically witnessing the demolition.
The same Varaha Temple at Pushkar, desecrated during Aurangzeb's reign, did not remain in ruins forever.
It was rebuilt by Sawai Jai Singh II, grandson of Mirza Raja Jai Singh. The present temple owes its existence to Kachwaha patronage.
No contemporary Persian, Rajput or Marathi source states that Mirza Raja Jai Singh arrested Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj or conspired in his imprisonment.
The Varaha Temple at Pushkar was desecrated during Aurangzeb's reign. This is true, however neither Persian chronicles nor contemporary Rajput records describe Mirza Raja Jai Singh physically witnessing the demolition.
The same Varaha Temple at Pushkar, desecrated during Aurangzeb's reign, did not remain in ruins forever.
It was rebuilt by Sawai Jai Singh II, grandson of Mirza Raja Jai Singh. The present temple owes its existence to Kachwaha patronage.
FYI Jaipur rulers became among the greatest Hindu patrons of the 18th century. They literally funded Temples,
Gaushalas, patronised Sanskrit learning, sponsored Vedic sacrifices like the Ashvamedha and Vajapeya, invited scholars from across India, and turned Jaipur into a centre hub of astronomy, philosophy and dharmashastra
Gaushalas, patronised Sanskrit learning, sponsored Vedic sacrifices like the Ashvamedha and Vajapeya, invited scholars from across India, and turned Jaipur into a centre hub of astronomy, philosophy and dharmashastra
🧵Geolocation of a June 20 Airstrike reportedly in "Block 3" of the Al-Bureij city, killing 3 Hamas members.
Location: 31.441148, 34.401664
8G3PCCR2+FM Al Bureij, Deir Al Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip
Massive H/T: @fdov21
@GeoConfirmed
Identities of the members in replies.
Location: 31.441148, 34.401664
8G3PCCR2+FM Al Bureij, Deir Al Balah Governorate, Gaza Strip
Massive H/T: @fdov21
@GeoConfirmed
Identities of the members in replies.
Reference Videos:
Footage of the strike, courtesy of @manniefabian plus as local footage posted on social media.
Sources:
1. x.com/furkancan/stat…
2. x.com/manniefabian/s…
Footage of the strike, courtesy of @manniefabian plus as local footage posted on social media.
Sources:
1. x.com/furkancan/stat…
2. x.com/manniefabian/s…
According to Palestinian reports, the strike killed 3 people.
1. Sibai Abu Hasna (سباعي أبو حسنة)
2. Ahmed Wishah (أحمد وشاح) - Al Jazzera Journalist
3. Abdulrahman Abu Gharqoud (عبد الرحمن أبو غرقود)
1. Sibai Abu Hasna (سباعي أبو حسنة)
2. Ahmed Wishah (أحمد وشاح) - Al Jazzera Journalist
3. Abdulrahman Abu Gharqoud (عبد الرحمن أبو غرقود)
In May 2026, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple ran a cross-border settlement that hadn't been done before. A tokenized US Treasury, redeemed across banks in about 4.2 seconds, after hours and on a public chain… and that chain was the XRP Ledger
1/24🧵
1/24🧵
The biggest bank in America, the biggest card network on earth, and a tokenized Treasury from Ondo Finance, all clearing on a public chain in seconds with RLUSD bridging and XRP paying the fee. Still a pilot, but the kind finance kept calling impossible
2/24🧵
2/24🧵
So why XRP, out of thousands of tokens? The answer is what Ripple spent three years doing while most people weren't watching. It bought the financial plumbing banks took a century to build. No partnership decks, it wrote checks and took ownership.
3/24🧵
3/24🧵
One of the more uncomfortable observations in our AI Value Capture piece is internal: our token spend at SemiAnalysis now runs at roughly 30% of employee compensation, with employees pulling just under 5 billion tokens per month on average, over 5x more than Meta, and our top contributors clearing 100 billion. We wrote about it openly because every research firm, hedge fund, and law firm we know is heading toward a similar number, just on a delay. (1/4)🧵
The substitution math is the part to internalize. Tasks that used to need a junior analyst for several hours, converting a model to a dashboard, building chart packs from earnings, rebuilding a comp set, now resolve in minutes for a few dollars of tokens. The blended Opus 4.7 cost we observe is about $0.99 per million against $5/$25 sticker, mostly because agentic workloads run 300:1 input-to-output ratios and cache hit rates above 90% pull the effective price down. Thats a real change in the unit economics of professional services, not a 10% efficiency gain. (2/4)
The throughput math has gotten the most pushback in our reader notes, so its worth being precise. On the same B300 running DeepSeek R1, baseline FP8 sits near 1,000 tokens/sec/GPU, adding wideEP plus disagg gets you to roughly 8,000, and layering MTP on top pushes it to about 14,000, a 14x gain from software alone. Factor in hardware too and the most optimized GB300 NVL72 hits about 17x the best H100 config in FP8, 32x in FP4. Once you accept that compression is real, model-lab gross margin expansion stops looking like a temporary pricing oddity and starts looking structural. (3/4)
This vial contains a new drug called PAC-832, which I recently invented to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is the world’s first selective GalR1 antagonist.
I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)
I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)
PAC-832 is the first drug of its kind. It works by selectively blocking a receptor in the brain called “galanin receptor 1,” or GalR1. The drug has sub-micromolar potency for GalR1 and >30x selectivity over GalR2/3. (2/16)
When administered to mice, PAC-832 significantly improves their memory across multiple different memory tests. (3/16)
